- Date
- August 17, 1996, 08:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Spring, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N89032Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 23, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19960817031309A
- Case key
- 19961
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Probable cause
failure of the pilot to maintain directional control of the airplane during a touch-and-go, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve, an encounter with soft terrain, and a nose over of the airplane.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
According to the solo pilot, she had been cleared by her flight instructor to stay in the traffic pattern at the David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport to practice landings. After departing on runway 17L, she was cleared by the tower for a touch-and-go landing on runway 17R. According to the pilot, after touching down on runway 17R, she applied full power to initiate the takeoff phase of the touch-and-go. Control was lost, and the airplane departed the left side of the runway and went into grass. The pilot reported to an FAA inspector that she 'panicked and failed to close the throttle.' The nose landing gear sank in soft ground, and the airplane nosed over, collapsing the nose landing gear.
Factual narrative
On August 17, 1996, at 0830 central daylight time, a Cessna 152, N89032, was substantially damaged following a loss of control during takeoff near Spring, Texas. The airplane, owned by A.B. Aviation, was being operated by National Aviation Services Inc., of Spring, Texas, under Title 14 CFR Part 91. The student pilot, sole occupant of the airplane, was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the solo instructional flight for which a flight plan was not filed.
According to the solo pilot, she had been cleared by her flight instructor to stay in the traffic pattern at the David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport to practice landings. After departing on runway 17L, she was cleared by the tower for a touch and go landing on runway 17R.
According to the pilot, after touching down on runway 17R, she applied full power to initiate the takeoff phase of the touch-and-go. Control was lost and the airplane departed the left side of the runway into the grass. The pilot reported to the FAA inspector that she "panicked and failed to close the throttle." The nose landing gear sank in the soft ground and the airplane nosed over, collapsing the nose landing gear.
Examination of the airplane by the operator's maintenance personnel revealed structural damage to the engine firewall. The winds at the time of the accident were calm.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89032
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282603
- Airframe hours
- 6,452
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Alice Bonds, doing business as National Aviation Services Inc
- Registered owner
- A.B. Aviation Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 17, 1996 · 96 hours before
- Departed
- DWH
- Airport
- DWH · David Wayne Hooks, runway 17, 7,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 36
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 41 total · 41 in this make and model · 7 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DWH
FAA reports on this event · 1
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